MULTILINGUAL TAX TREATIES AND PECULIARITIES OF THEIR INTERPRETATION

Double Tax Treaties and Their Interpretation

Bilateral Tax Treaties and GDP Comovement

Using a 30-year panel of quarterly GDP fluctuations from of a broad set of countries, we demonstrate that the signing of a bilateral tax treaty increases the comovement of treaty partners’ business cycles by 1/2 a standard deviation. This effect of fiscal policy is as large as the effect of trade linkages on comovement, and stronger than the effects of several other common financial and investm...

Legal Status of Treaties in Interpretation and Application of Article 7 of the Iranian Civil Code

Nowadays there are many aliens’ populations living in other countries. Forced Migration and Study of Religious Sciences are two main reasons introducing Iran as a host country. This paper Intends to clarify some questions about enforcement of Iranian civil code which determines the applicable law on the personal status of foreigners. There are some disagreements about the law governing personal...

Clarifying the Meaning of ‘Beneficial Owner’ in Tax Treaties

and general language. Also, the discussion drafts do not clarify the context, object, and purpose to be considered in the interpretation of beneficial owner. Regarding the context, the drafts only explain that ‘‘the term ‘beneficial owner’ was added to address potential difficulties arising from the use of the words ‘paid to . . . a resident’ in paragraph 1,’’19 but they leave unspoken exactly ...

Tax Treaties and Foreign Direct Investment: A Network Approach

Multinational investors often reduce tax on dividends by using indirect investment routes. This paper constructs a tax rate matrix to represent a real-world network of tax treaties between 70 countries and develops network algorithms to study the structure of tax-minimizing (direct or indirect) investment routes in the tax treaty network. The treaty shopping arbitrage rate, defined as the diffe...